TikiGap's thread - Tiki 20 and other travels - Page 22 - Tiki Carving

T tikigap Tiki Socialite St Augustine, Florida Joined: Jan 19, 2006 Posts: 841	T tikigap Posted posted on Thu, Jul 10, 2008 9:40 AM On 2008-07-10 07:41, Benzart wrote: Yeah, Any more Weird messages?? Been Missing you around these parts, Hope all is well with you. Come show us what you are up to! Well hello fellas! - JP, Ben, and everyone else. It has been a while - and I've been remiss! It's great to hear from you and thanks for checking in on me. I'm glad to see you guys are still at it - and that Ben is all healed up :wink: Life has been catching up with me, (kids in college, new job, surgery (gall bladder out! Ewww!), lots of travel etc.), so I have not been doing enough of my own stuff - I have had almost zero time to carve for the last 6 months or so. I have been lurking on TC though, and checkin out the great stuff - you guys amaze me. I did finally finish the palm log (my Tiki #20) Ben gave me to drag home a while back - I call it "Bathroom Tiki". I know, it's just another 'face tiki', but it's what my wife would allow me to put up in the BR. I made a rubber stamp (or four) for a border around the BR, and carved out some molding for around the mirror, and stuck the #20 on the wall: It aint much, but it was at least some carving :wink: I went to San Francisco on business a month ago and visited the Tonga Room in the Fairmont Hotel, and Trader Vics in Emeryville. Also, I just got back from 2 weeks in Alaska (zero tiki - none - nada), but I did get to see some fantastic totem carves, which has inspired me to pick up the mallet again. Also, at the suggestion of TabooDan, I stopped by the Waldorf Hotel in Vancouver BC to see the Tahitian Room. Thanks again, and I should be posting again real soon, hopefully with some examples of better-quality work. Greg [ Edited by: tikigap 2008-07-10 09:42 ] [ Edited by: tikigap 2008-07-10 18:57 ]

On 2008-07-10 07:41, Benzart wrote:
Yeah, Any more Weird messages?? Been Missing you around these parts, Hope all is well with you. Come show us what you are up to!

Well hello fellas! - JP, Ben, and everyone else. It has been a while - and I've been remiss! It's great to hear from you and thanks for checking in on me. I'm glad to see you guys are still at it - and that Ben is all healed up :wink:

Life has been catching up with me, (kids in college, new job, surgery (gall bladder out! Ewww!), lots of travel etc.), so I have not been doing enough of my own stuff - I have had almost zero time to carve for the last 6 months or so. I have been lurking on TC though, and checkin out the great stuff - you guys amaze me.

I did finally finish the palm log (my Tiki #20) Ben gave me to drag home a while back - I call it "Bathroom Tiki". I know, it's just another 'face tiki', but it's what my wife would allow me to put up in the BR.

I made a rubber stamp (or four) for a border around the BR, and carved out some molding for around the mirror, and stuck the #20 on the wall:

It aint much, but it was at least some carving :wink:

I went to San Francisco on business a month ago and visited the Tonga Room in the Fairmont Hotel, and Trader Vics in Emeryville.

Also, I just got back from 2 weeks in Alaska (zero tiki - none - nada), but I did get to see some fantastic totem carves, which has inspired me to pick up the mallet again. Also, at the suggestion of TabooDan, I stopped by the Waldorf Hotel in Vancouver BC to see the Tahitian Room.

Thanks again, and I should be posting again real soon, hopefully with some examples of better-quality work.

Greg

[ Edited by: tikigap 2008-07-10 09:42 ]

[ Edited by: tikigap 2008-07-10 18:57 ]

Post #392997 by tikigap on Thu, Jul 10, 2008 9:40 AM